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A machine can collect, compare and collate tremendous amounts of information, but it can’t do the thing that matters most of all—decide what has genuine value for human lives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
He told vehicle owners that forensic scientists had inspected the car stacker and advised them to collate any costs and expenses incurred as a result of the incident.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2025
On that day, I followed Nikki’s careful instructions to type and collate the lines of poetry I’d scrawled in composition books and notepads for years and leave the rest to her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2024
His company uses AI models to collate detailed metadata and intelligence to create archives of the continent’s diverse music heritage.
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2024
There are at least four columns filled with bank managers, accountants, loan officers, cotton collate operators.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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All Flock did was come up with a very user-friendly system that collates all the information quickly, with good search options.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The complex, diverse ecosystem created by European reef-building oysters has collapsed, according to the recent assessment we submitted to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, which collates the statuses of ecosystems and species.
From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2025
The other pieces of paper include notes and thoughts, which Servais collects and collates over the offseason.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2024
The account collates and tweets out data from a number of agencies that track natural disasters - often releasing information faster than even they do.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2024
After it has been sawed, or scratched, the book goes to a girl who collates it—that is, examines it thoroughly, signature by signature, and makes sure that everything is in its right place.
From The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing by Frederick H. Hitchcock
On a fold-up bed by the window, 59-year-old Xu Rulin from Jiangxi province pulls his carefully collated evidence out of a red plastic shopping bag.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Underlying earnings rose 43% from a year earlier to $6.85 billion, topping the $6.61 billion consensus estimate collated by Visible Alpha.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
A half dozen recent polls collated by USA Today as the country approaches the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence showed a majority believed the country's best years were behind it.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
Quiz collated by Rosemary McCabe and the Special Projects team.
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
De Vries also pored through Darwin's books, and he latched onto the theory of pangenesis—the idea that “particles of information” from the body were somehow collected and collated in sperm and eggs.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The BLS spends the days before a release collating the data and assembling the public report.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
The BEA collects little data firsthand, instead collating and publishing numbers gathered by other agencies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
“My mother included us in everything that she did, and I mean everything. I remember as a child collating pages for her second book. It was wonderful.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
When speaking to Campbell in 2022, she discussed with me the idea of collating all the big moments of her life and career in one space.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2024
Harker has gone back, and is again collating his material.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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